In autumn 2026 two of Europe’s most beloved collections swapped 25 masterpieces each, the first exchange of its kind between the museums. Jan van Eyck, Albrecht Dürer, El Greco, Antonello da Messina, Piero della Francesca and Bronzino traveled from Madrid to The Hague, while Vermeer‘s View of Delft, Rembrandt, Frans Hals and their contemporaries went to Madrid.
The common thread is love. Instead of conventional catalog entries, the book invites twenty Spanish and Dutch writers, among them Antonio Muñoz Molina, Sara Mesa, Marta Sanz, Hanna Bervoets and Bert Natter, to write a personal story about a single painting: love between people, love of nature and love of art, in all its longing, loss and consolation.
A fresh, literary way into the Old Masters, and a lovely gift for anyone who knows the Girl with a Pearl Earring‘s museum or the Paseo del Prado.
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